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Europe's migrant adventures
Vatican brings more Syrian refugees to Rome[Ynet] Following Pope Francis' lead, the Vatican has brought a second group of Syrian refugees to Rome. The Vatican said Friday nine refugees, including three children, were accompanied by Holy See security personnel on their trip from Athens Thursday. They had been living in Kara Tepe refugee camp after arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos by sea from ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... Two of the arrivals are Christians. Austria wants to help Hungary seal off its Serbian border to migrants [AlAhram] Austria on Friday offered to help Hungary secure its border with Serbia, which is already well-protected but where Hungary has long been criticised by its European partners for its treatment of The Austrian daily Die Presse said this week that Austrian soldiers could be sent to patrol the border under the plans. The Austrian defence ministry says around 150 Currently Austria is not sending any back to Hungary following a court decision last September that prevented an Afghan family being returned because of "inhumane conditions" in Hungary. Smugglers Switch To Poland To Avoid Fortress Europe [Breitbart] Moving to outflank the fences and walls of Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, people smugglers are now inserting their customers into Germany from the unguarded East. The border between Germany and Poland, now totally open thanks to the Schengen borderless internal zone is becoming increasingly busy with illegal traffic as smugglers avoid Germany’s fortified southern borders. German newspaper Die Welt reports the smugglers and their charges are hard to miss in Polish border town Slubice, where the illegals are driven up to the border and then left to walk into Germany, unstopped and unchecked. A leaked police paper has outlined the extent of the problem, which it claims is exacerbated by a "significantly reduced" number of police assigned to patrol the frontier, with many redeployed to man immigration stations along the southern border. The report claims there were 114 illegal crossings "detected" across the Eastern border in May, in addition to an unknown quantity of The report lamented "the border to the East is completely open!", and that the smugglers "laughed" at the few border guards left. The problem of invisible migration brought by the migrant crisis is one the German government is presently trying to wrestle with, as they attempt to assess just how many people are actually in the country. The latest academic estimate of the figure puts totally undocumented illegals -- those with which the German government has no contact or control over whatsoever -- as around half a million. The invisible illegals are a particular problem for Germany’s police because they cannot find legal employment or access state benefits, and therefore rely on crime for sustenance.
Posted by: trailing wife 2016-06-18 |
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